While much of the press coverage in food tech is devoted to brands making meat, egg, and dairy alternatives, these technologies will only be scalable – and sustainable - if we pay the same level of attention to the enabling technologies underpinning them,...
Food companies are increasingly opting for insetting over offsetting their carbon emissions, it's been claimed, as the voluntary carbon offset market continues to look to improve its credibility.
With $10m in series A funding, the carbon assessment platform Planet FWD hopes to dramatically reduce the time it takes CPG companies to evaluate and neutralize their environmental impact while simultaneously speeding up their development of eco-friendly...
General Mills’ sale of its iconic Helper main meals and Suddenly Salad side dish business for $610m to Eagle Family Foods Group will free up resources and help rebuild its cash reserves as it continues to hunt for acquisitions to build out its five core...
ADM’s nutrition business may represent only 15% of its operating profit currently, but executives expect that to double in the next three years and to drive a majority of the company’s operating growth thanks to its “systems” approach to business development,...
While the past couple of years have been a bit of a rollercoaster ride with supply chain challenges and soaring inflation, KIND posted a 15% increase in sales in the US market in 2021, and is enjoying "really robust growth" in 2022, says KIND...
They may not be magic, but mushrooms – at least medicinal ones – are having a moment as consumer demand for functional benefits, such as clarity, calm, digestive support and enhanced immunity, are driving discovery and sales of the versatile, easy-to-you...
Unit sales of Flowers Foods' top brands still grew in the first quarter, despite significant price increases, said executives at the Georgia-based baking giant, which is gearing up for a second wave of price increases in June. "Importantly,...
Superbrewed Food has secured self-affirmed GRAS status for a new whole food, non-GMO ingredient - marketed as a ‘postbiotic cultured protein’ – that founder Dr Bryan Tracy is billing as “the most nutrient dense protein source on the planet,” with 80%+...
Tyson Foods is betting big on ready-to-eat and value-added products, which it estimates could return margins of 10-12% even during a recession, as part of its ambitious goal to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition and outpace the market.
The FDA has denied a request to exempt rare sugar tagatose from the total and added sugars declaration on the Nutrition Facts panel, three years after granting the same request for rare sugar allulose, a decision petitioner Bonumose has slammed as “contradictory...
Dairy, plant-based and animal-free products often unnecessarily are pitted against each other as competing for the same place in consumers’ fridges, when in reality most Americans buy across the segment and manufacturers would be better served by highlighting...
Despite a significant uptick in the percentage of Americans following a particular diet or eating pattern - from 'clean eating' to 'mindful eating' - to improve their wellbeing, fewer weigh the healthfulness of the ingredients or products...
With the global food system under significant pressure to keep up with the world's growing population, The Kellogg Company's SVP of global R&D and innovation Dr. Nigel Hughes presents how international food and beverage companies can take...
Reformulating products to clean up labels resulted in both higher revenue and higher margins for a majority of North American manufacturers surveyed by Ingredion late last year, claims the company, which quizzed 2,000 product developers at large and mid-sized...
Good Good, an Icelandic breakfast brand of no-sugar-added products, has closed a $20m Series B funding round which will help support new low-sugar product innovation and future US product distribution.
While the proportion of Americans who say they have purchased groceries online over the past 12 months has declined, slightly more consumers say they now do ‘most’ or ‘all or almost all’ of their grocery shopping online, according to Coresight Research’s...
Being an entrepreneur can feel desperately lonely – especially in the early days when budgets are tight, days are long and challenges crop up constantly – but as romantic as the idea of buckling down and becoming ‘self-made’ may be, few founders actually...
With food-at-home prices in April 2022 up a staggering 10.8% vs April 2021, consumers are beginning to change their behavior. FoodNavigator-USA caught up with K. K. Davey, president of client engagement at IRI, to find out what he’s seeing in the data.
Food prices likely will remain stubbornly high as the cost of key ingredients, packaging materials, transportation and warehousing paid by producers continues to rise, albeit at a slightly slower pace – sparking optimism among some that high inflation...
SpoonfulONE, a line of nutritional products that introduces babies to 16 food allergens at the beginning of their feeding journey, has expanded distribution to nearly 5,000 Walgreens stores nationwide helping make early allergen introduction a common...
Despite its grim near-term figures, Beyond Meat’s long-term prospects are good, insisted CEO Ethan Brown on the firm’s Q1 earnings call Wednesday as analysts queried how much longer the plant-based meat firm would have to speculate before it started to...
MSP Starch Products Inc., makers of the branded ingredient Solnul Resistant Potato Starch, said the offering has been certified by the Upcycled Foods Association (UFA).
PepsiCo is working alongside academia and other partners to develop our understanding of the oat genome for use in open-source applications. The company believes this can unlock gains in the fields of health and sustainability.
In FoodNavigator-USA's latest roundup of new product launches, we include an eclectic mix of new products, from ‘on-the-go’ prebiotic fiber blends and Lavazza coffee in cans, to plant-based scrambled egg, ice cream sandwiches, and cheeseballs.
As government stimulus abates, consumer savings rates are beginning to dip below pre-pandemic levels just as food prices are rising due to inflation – driving demand for less expensive private label products and helping to boost TreeHouse Foods’ net sales...
Online grocery activity declined across the board last month in three main segments including pickup (in-store, curbside, lockers, etc.), delivery (first and thirst party providers such as Kroger, Instacart, Shipt), and ship-to-home (parcel carriers including...
Batting many of the same macro headwinds as the rest of the industry including continued inflation, supply chain disruptions, and ingredient and packaging shortages, Hain Celestial maintains a positive outlook on its North American business where consumer...
Kellogg is steadily, and more quickly than anticipated, recapturing lost distribution and market share in the US cereal market after a factory fire and drawn-out strike last year depleted supply and left it unable to meet demand for all its beloved breakfast...
As a 100+-year-old company of some of the most well-known CPG brands, Mars Inc. sees innovation as the driving force behind the company's next chapter of growth and the key to maintaining consumer relevancy.
Herbalife’s stock price took a tumble after the company announced disappointing earnings yesterday. Continuing pandemic issues and global inflation hurt the company’s bottom line.
Tate & Lyle – a global ingredients company best known for sweeteners, fibers, and texturizing ingredients – has moved into the burgeoning plant-based protein arena with a deal to acquire Virginia-based chickpea protein and flour co Nutriati, six months...
Food & beverage class actions surged in 2021, driven in part by a tsunami of cases over heavy metals in baby food, but judges are wearying of cases that assume consumers have zero common sense, according to a review by law firm Perkins Coie.
Hershey’s higher-than-expected sales and market share gains in the first quarter is a double-edged sword for the confection and snack company – allowing it to raise its full year guidance but simultaneously straining inventory and increasing the company’s...
Kraft Heinz is reimaging its approach to food production and marketing to help offset inflation and increase value for consumers as they begin to consider their budgets and purchase priorities more carefully as prices across categories rise.
Undeterred by a drop in Internet searches in North America for ‘keto’ and ‘ketogenic’ that might suggest declining interest in the high-fat, moderate-protein and ultra-low-carb diet, many packaged food manufacturers appear to be doubling down on the claim...
Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine is taking a toll on major CPG companies, including PepisCo and Mondelez, both of which reported a hit to annual profits yesterday due to restricted production and sales in the countries and surrounding area as well...
After taking a hit early in the pandemic, sales of impulse purchases are beginning to rebound – but they look different now than before the outbreak as brands and retailers redefine the category to better align with consumer needs and lifestyles reshaped...
The ingredients supplier is investing €50m in the new facility to make protein concentrate, starch rich flour and hulls from faba beans – a crops that comes with ‘convincing sustainable credentials’, Beneo’s Christoph Boettger tells FoodNavigator.
There’s no magic formula for creating a successful food product, but combining two things that pretty much everyone already likes is probably a good place to start, say the founders of Baozza, a frozen food brand launched by two American expats in China...
Mondelēz International is set to acquire iconic chocolate and candy brands including Ricolino, Vero, La Corona and Coronado from Grupo Bimbo, Mexico’s leading confectionery company.
As Earth Day month draws to a close, food and beverage manufacturers are celebrating efforts to reduce food waste, in their factories and in consumers’ homes, through increasingly creative and data-backed initiatives, including Hellmann’s ‘fridge night’...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent shockwaves rippling through the food supply chain, but thanks to a confluence of factors, the wheat market – in particular – is “on fire,” say analysts at Rabobank.
With supplies from Ukraine and Russia – which together accounted for 15.3% of global corn exports in 2020/21 - in jeopardy, “the world now turns to Brazil and the US for corn, and prices will rise,” says Rabobank, which notes that prices are already trading...
Undefined and increasingly under fire for allegedly delivering low nutrition but high calories, so-called ultra-processed food could be under the microscope during the next review of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, slated for publication in 2025.
Emboldened by “sustained consumer demand” despite rising prices in the first quarter to the highest level since 2008, Nestle executives told investors yesterday that they will continue to pass on “significantly higher” than expected cost inflation to...
As Americans who have worked from home since the pandemic begin to return to their offices and become more comfortable socializing in the evenings, when and what they eat is shifting earlier and later – at the expense of more traditional meals – creating...
In part four of our series on the high-fat, moderate protein, ultra-low-carb keto diet, FoodNavigator-USA checked in with experts at consumer insights specialist Hartman Group, and product innovation company Mattson to get their take on whether it is...
Entrepreneurs at startups and emerging brands often innovate and build their businesses based on their intuition or anecdotal feedback from loved ones and early adopters, but as they scale so do their need for detailed data and analysis -- not just about...
